Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howie Carr

You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.

Howie Carr

Reporters used to be blue-collar; at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

Mary Martin

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Peter Sellers

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

Richard Carlson

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

Richard Carlson

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

Richard Carlson

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

Richard Carlson

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

Richard Carlson

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Sarah Orne Jewett

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

Sarah Orne Jewett

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Sam Keen

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Russell Banks

I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

Paul Auster

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

Mary Higgins Clark

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Keith Miller

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

We've had enormous struggles on the baseball front.

Paula Danziger

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

Dick Bruna

I work very long on each book, sometimes two or three months, because I think all the twelve illustrations have to be nice pieces of graphic art.

Beverly Cleary

My books take place in a very specific neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. It must be the most stable neighborhood in the United States.

Charles Phillips

You know, I had spoke to Pugh earlier about joining the organization. Pugh told me he wasn't going to have anything to do with that mess.

Zig Ziglar

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Benjamin Hoff

That was when I began to get an idea: to write a book that explained the principles of Taoism through Winnie-the-Pooh, and explained Winnie-the-Pooh through the principles of Taoism.

Michael Chabon

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

Michael Chabon

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

Alice Walker

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

Zane Grey

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

Zane Grey

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Judith Martin

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Richard Carlson

We have to shore this thing up like a New Orleans levy.

Helen Keller

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Helen Keller

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.